![]() ![]() Given the comic’s almost instantaneous success, DC’s initial reaction to The Dark Knight Returns seems unfathomable in hindsight. ![]() Eventually, they relented and let me slip through with my little story. I had to argue with them to let me do this version of Batman. “They hated it,” the celebrated writer-artist tells Yahoo Movies. But Miller recalls a very different reaction to his gritty Batman tale within the halls of DC Comics in the weeks preceding the release of the first issue in February 1986. Heading into its 30th birthday, Frank Miller’s seminal graphic novel, The Dark Knight Returns, is preserved in stone on the Mount Rushmore of modern mainstream comic books, right alongside Alan Moore’s Watchmen, Neil Gaiman’s Sandman, and Chris Claremont’s Days of Future Past arc in the X-Men books. ![]()
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